Ajitha (Naxalite activist)
Aruna Asaf Ali (freedom fighter)
Geeta Anand
(journalist)
Rukmini Devi Arundale (dancer)
Sirimavo Bandaranaike (politician)
Radha Basu (Silicon Valley entrepreneur)
Alpana Bawa (fashion designer)
Kiran Bedi
(policewoman)
Protima Bedi (freespirited dancer)
Mohini Bhardwaj (gymnast)
Uma Bharti (politician)
Shobhana Bhartia (media baron)
Sangeeta Bhatia
(biomedical engineer)
Ela Bhatt (activist)
Razia Bhatti (journalist)
Benazir Bhutto (politician)
Asha Blake (anchor, ABC News)
Ipsita Roy Chakraverti
(witch)
Sheila Chandra (singer)
Kalpana Chawla (astronaut)
Sudha Churi (chief, Shiv Sena Mahila Aghadi)
Sucheta Dalal (investigative journalist)
Shamita Das Dasgupta
(activist)
Dedlibai (activist)
Vidya Dehejia (art curator)
Bhairavi Desai (activist)
Gayatri Devi (royal politician)
Mahasweta Devi
(writer/activist)
Phoolan Devi (dacoit/politician)
Daljit Dhaliwal (ITN anchor)
Ayesha Dharker (actor)
Barkha Dutt (Anchor/reporter, Star News)
Bilquis Edhi (social worker)
Diana Eduljee (cricketer)
Ela Gandhi (anti-apartheid activist, politician)
Indira Gandhi (politician)
Maneka Gandhi (politician/activist)
Priyanka Gandhi
(politician)
Sonia Gandhi (politician)
Alice Garg (educator)
Yasmeen Ghauri (supermodel)
Arundhati Ghose (ambassador)
Namita Gokhale
(writer/journalist)
Tanika Gupta (playwright)
Vinita Gupta (Silicon Valley entrepreneur)
Talat Hasan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur)
Tanuja Desai Hidier (writer/singer)
Nasreen Huq (women's rights activist)
Mishal Husain (BBC anchor)
Syeda Abida Hussain (politician)
Salima Ikram (Egyptologist)
Chokila Iyer
(foreign secretary)
Madhur Jaffrey (author & actor)
Asma Jahangir (lawyer)
Zubaida Jalal (activist/educator)
Raji Jallepalli (fusion chef)
Jayalalitha
(consummate politician)
Susanthika Jayasinghe (sprinter)
Rani Jethmalani (Supreme Court advocate)
Hina Jilani (lawyer)
Fatima Jinnah (politician)
Norah Jones
(musician)
Sufia Kamal (poet/activist)
Sultana Kamal (activist)
Kamalabehn (activist)
Ektaa Kapoor (TV producer)
Brinda Karat
(women's activist)
Lubna Khalid (businesswoman/model)
Noor Inayat Khan (WWII spy)
Surina Khan (gay rights activist)
Renu Khator (university president)
Ming Kipa
(mountaineer)
Madhu Kishwar (writer/activist)
Lata Krishnan (Silicon Valley entrepreneur)
Chandrika Kumaratunge (politician)
Maleeha Lodhi (diplomat)
Indira Mahajan
(soprano)
Mukhtar Mai (activist)
Karnam Malleswari (weightlifter)
Anna Mani (physicist)
Irshad Manji (writer/activist)
Sister Avelin Mary
(marine biologist)
Mayawati (firebrand politician)
Fatima Meer (anti-apartheid activist)
Anjolie Ela Menon (artist)
Sania Mirza (tennis)
Jugnu Mohsin
(journalist)
Bif Naked (rocker)
Sister Nirmala (social worker)
Vijaya Nirmala (Actress and director)
Indra Nooyi (Pepsico president)
Merle Oberon
(actress)
Anuradha Pal (tabalchi)
Bachendri Pal (mountaineer)
Vijay Lakshmi Pandit (freedom fighter/politician)
Hemalee J. Patel (lawyer)
Pratibha Patil
(politician)
Medha Patkar (activist)
Thangam Philip (nutritionist/cookbook author)
Arati Prabhakar (scientist)
Nina Puri (President, Int'l Planned Parenthood Federation)
Chitra Raghavan
(journalist)
Vasundhara Raje (politician)
Pandita Ramabai (scholar/social activist)
Susheela Raman (musician)
Aruna Roy (activist)
Arundhati Roy
(writer/activist)
Mary Roy (activist)
Mridula Sarabhai (freedom fighter)
Vijaya Raje Scindia (royal politician)
Aradhana Seth (filmmaker)
Leila Seth
(chief justice)
Shamima Shaikh (activist)
Anoushka Shankar (sitarist)
Amrita Shergil (artist)
Lhakpa Sherpa (mountaineer)
Pasang Lhamu Sherpa
(mountaineer)
Tarabai Shinde (activist)
Vandana Shiva (environmental activist)
Tavleen Singh (columnist)
Bhama Srinivasan (mathematician)
Srinija Srinivasan
(Yahoo's ontologist)
Chitra Subramaniam (journalist)
Sushma Swaraj (politician)
Romila Thapar (historian)
Sukhi Turner (politician)
Thrity Umrigar
(writer/journalist)
Roopa Unnikrishnan (rifle shooter)
P.T. Usha (athlete)
Urvashi Vaid (gay rights activist)
Pinki Virani (writer/journalist)
Sheikh Hasina Wajed
(politician)
Sunita Williams (astronaut)
Khaleda Zia (politician)
Racquel Zonte (guitarist)